New Scientist - 31 May 2014.bak
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New Scientist - 31 May 2014.bak
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CONTENTS<br />
Volume 222 No 2971<br />
This issue online<br />
newscientist.com/issue/2971<br />
<strong>New</strong>s<br />
8<br />
WIMPs in crisis<br />
Dark matter hunt<br />
comes to a head<br />
On the cover<br />
34<br />
The problem with<br />
acetaminophen<br />
Has the world’s favorite<br />
drug had its day<br />
Features<br />
38<br />
Pushing your<br />
buttons<br />
How game designers<br />
get you hooked – and<br />
keep you hooked<br />
PATRICK GEORGE NASA<br />
38 Pushing your buttons<br />
Games you can’t put down<br />
12 Independence<br />
Can science help a new<br />
nation find its way<br />
8 WIMPS in crisis<br />
Hunt for dark matter<br />
16 Eco resurrection<br />
Lost sea came back from<br />
the dead – twice<br />
30 Your inner tadpole<br />
Power to grow new limbs<br />
Coming next week…<br />
The memory fix<br />
Wiring your mind to heal itself<br />
Ahead of the radiation curve<br />
The unexpected benefits of nuclear bomb tests<br />
<strong>New</strong>s<br />
6 UPFRONT<br />
Europe swings to the right. Syrian refugees<br />
go home for cancer therapy. RIP UK fracking<br />
16 THIS WEEK<br />
Lost sea came back from the dead – twice.<br />
Origins of gut flora in newborns. Hacked<br />
brain cells soothe seizures<br />
18 IN BRIEF<br />
Dancing bees assess ecosystems. Longer<br />
life for mice that feel less pain. Planet eaters<br />
Four futures for Scotland<br />
12 Oil investment paradise Offshore riches<br />
High-tech hub Rev up the start-ups<br />
Green beacon All-renewable by 2020<br />
Sickest state in Europe If the dream fails<br />
Technology<br />
21 App to stop sexual harassment. Saving lives<br />
in prison. Ethical app. Radar spots pirates.<br />
Curvy gadgets. Health-tracking dog collar<br />
Aperture<br />
26 Twitter user spots galactic coyote<br />
Opinion<br />
28 A no vote for science Michael Brooks on<br />
how UKIP’s win might prove science’s loss<br />
29 One minute with… Robert Schwartz Older<br />
astronauts are go, says Mars One shortlister<br />
30 We can regrow Michael Levin plans to plug<br />
into bioelectric fields to grow new limbs<br />
32 LETTERS Quantum quirks. Robot minds<br />
Features<br />
34 The problem with acetaminophen<br />
(see above left)<br />
38 Pushing your buttons (see left)<br />
42 The secret language The tribe that<br />
doesn’t want to be heard<br />
CultureLab<br />
46 Join it up From climate change to economic<br />
busts, our problems need holistic thinking<br />
47 On hoverflies Knowledge’s gentle pleasures<br />
48 The world, for free How technology creep<br />
is starting to undermine market certainties<br />
Regulars<br />
5 LEADER Don’t let new boundaries<br />
cut off British science<br />
56 FEEDBACK Mammoth politics<br />
57 THE LAST WORD Lemon, and on, and on<br />
50 JOBS & CAREERS<br />
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